Virginia Huston

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BIRTHDAY

April 24, 1925

Wisner, NE

DIED

February 28, 1981

RECENT CREDITS

Knock on Wood (FILM) Apr. 1, 1954

Sudden Fear (FILM) Jan. 1, 1952

The Racket (FILM) Jan. 1, 1951

Out of the Past (FILM) Jan. 1, 1947

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Although she was featured in a couple of above-average film noirs, including Out of the Past (1947), blonde RKO starlet Virginia Huston always played the good girl and no one remembers the good girl in a film noir. A former child actress, Huston signed with RKO in 1945, and played stock ingénues until cast as Lynn Bari's nightclub singing sister in Nocturne (1947), a low-budget but well-appointed crime drama, in which her singing vocals were dubbed by Martha Mears. Out of the Past (1947), as Robert Mitchum's nice girlfriend, followed and she was allowed to demonstrate a bit of spirit opposite Joan Crawford in the classic soap opera Flamingo Road (1949). A broken back sustained in a near-fatal car crash kept her bedridden for a year and when she returned to films, it was as Jane opposite Lex Barker's jungle king in Tarzan's Peril (1951), a sure sign of declining interest. There were a few minor roles to follow, but Huston basically retired after marrying a wealthy real-estate broker in 1952.

~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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